Geek slumber parties

Next weekend more than 150 people will congregate in an empty office building near Boeing Field to discuss the latest trends in digital music, blogging, art, medicine, video games, and whatever else comes up in a 24-hour caffeine-fueled brain dump, according to my story today.

The overnight event — dubbed Seattle Mind Camp — is similar to San Francisco Bay Area retreats such as TagCamp, BarCamp and FooCamp. Andru Edwards, the 24-year-old Seattle blogger who came up with Seattle Mind Camp, said he wanted to create a networking event that captures the energy in Seattle’s tech community.

Individuals from Amazon.com, Microsoft, What Counts, The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Boeing, Seattle Wireless and other companies and organizations are scheduled to attend.

Microsoft program manager Korby Parnell says he looks forward to the event to “relax my laptop weary fingers, engage my mind, reflect for the first time since BlogWalk Seattle, and chat with some of the sharpest folks in Seattle,” in this post.

Here’s recent coverage of the tech camp phenomena from News.com and Wired.

Geek slumber parties

Next weekend more than 150 people will congregate in an empty office building near Boeing Field to discuss the latest trends in digital music, blogging, art, medicine, video games, and whatever else comes up in a 24-hour caffeine-fueled brain dump, according to my story today.

The overnight event — dubbed Seattle Mind Camp — is similar to San Francisco Bay Area retreats such as TagCamp, BarCamp and FooCamp. Andru Edwards, the 24-year-old Seattle blogger who came up with Seattle Mind Camp, said he wanted to create a networking event that captures the energy in Seattle’s tech community.

Individuals from Amazon.com, Microsoft, What Counts, The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Boeing, Seattle Wireless and other companies and organizations are scheduled to attend.

Microsoft program manager Korby Parnell says he looks forward to the event to “relax my laptop weary fingers, engage my mind, reflect for the first time since BlogWalk Seattle, and chat with some of the sharpest folks in Seattle,” in this post.

Here’s recent coverage of the tech camp phenomena from News.com and Wired.